The Making of South Africa : Culture and Politics Book

(NOTE: Each chapter concludes with Questions to Consider and For Further Reading).

Preface.

List of Maps.

List of Photographs and Sources.

1. The Setting: Climate, Geography and People in Sout Africa.

The Environment. Human Communities: The San and Khoi. The First Farmers. Farming Society. Conclusions.

2. Early Conflict and Interdependence: The Establishment and Expansion of the Cape Colony.

Earliest Contact: Portugese Forays and Khoi Responses. The V.O.C. (Dutch East India Company) and Company Rule. White Settlement and Khoi Resistence. Slavery at the Cape. Relations in the Zones of Interaction. Whites and Griqua in the Interior. The Xhosa and White Settlers. Conclusion.

3. The British and the Expanding Cape.

The Arrival of the British. Abolition. Reform and Labor. British Settlers. The Missionary Enterprise. Xhosa Crises: Interaction with the Settlers and Civil War. Conclusion.

4. The Making of New States.

The Implications of the “Mecane.” Nguni-speaking Chiefdoms. The Rise of the Zulu Kingdom. Developments in the Interior. Mass Movements and New States. Moshoeshoe and the Sotho. Mzilikazi and the Ndebele. Matiwane's Ngwane and the British. British Policy and the Xhosa. The Afrikaner “Great Trek.” Piet Retief and the Zulu. Conclusion.

5. African and Afrikaners States in Conflict.

African States and the Trekker Republics. Africans and British Policy Initiatives: Segregation and Indirect Rule. African States, White Settlers, Imperial Authorities and the Xhosa Crisis. The Sotho, Afrikaners and British Intervention on the Highveld. British Policy Reversals and the Sotho-Orange Free State War. Conclusions.

6. The First Phase of Industrialization.

Diamond Discoveries and Rival Claims. African Men and Women and the Development of Diamond Mining. The Impact of Mining. Imperial Designs, Local Politics and Confederation Schemes. British Imperialism, Afrikaner Republican Resistance and the Pedi Kingdom. The Final Phases of Conquest. Sotho and Zulu Resistence. Conclusion.

7. The Second Phase of Industrialization: Gold Mining and the Creation of a Unified White State.

Gold Mining African Migrant Labor. African Society and Migrant Labor. The Politics of Mining: the Afrikaners, and British and Rhodes. The South African War. Peace, Reconstruction and the Building of a White State. African Resistance and African Labor. Conclusion.

8. From Union to Apartheid: The Consolidation of a White State and the Rise of African Opposition, 1910—1948.

White Politics and the State. Segregation Legislation and African Communities. Opposition Movements and the Roots of African Nationalism. Rural African Opposition. Conclusion.

9. Apartheid and South African Society.

The Nationalists and Apartheid. Blacks and Apartheid Policies. African Society and the Impact of Apartheid. The Homelands. Opposition Politics: Strategy and Rural Protests. Rising Tensions, State Repression and Radicalism. South Africa in Global Context. Conclusion.

10. The African Transformation of South Africa.

The South African Security State and Regional Politics. Resistance From Below and the Failure of “Reform.” The Rejection of Reform, Uprisings and Opposition Tensions. Mounting Pressures and the Road to Negotiations. Negotiations and the Road to Democratic Elections. Conclusions.

11. The New South Africa: 1994—Present.

The New Government and the Ascendancy of the ANC. The Economy. Looking Back, Healing and Moving Forward: the TRC and the Land Question. Current Challenges: HIV/AIDS and Crime. Conclusion.

Bibliography and Recommended On-line Resources.

Index.